Mining Technician - Anglo American

Job Description:

As Mining Technician, your responsibilities will include: 

• Coordinating mining operations to ensure optimum and cost-effective recovery of Iron Ore according to sound mining practice, to ensure the attainment of Department & production objectives
• Initiating and managing the development of improved technical standards and systems to build effective operational support for achievement of internal production targets
• The application and deployment of human resources in a way that maximises the benefit to the business as well as to themselves
• Regular caucus meetings & team build sessions are held with all personnel & a high-performance culture exists
• Problems are resolved within appropriate levels of accountability and responsibility for individuals and teams
• Personnel are actively involved in finding and implementing solutions

• The teams have the ability to initiate and manage change
• Individual and or department objectives are clearly specified and agreed upon
• Identify barriers to effective production performance and contribute to the design of efficient production processes by recommending solutions to ensure optimal and economical resource utilisation.
• Monitoring, measuring and analysing the quantity and quality of production levels to identify areas of improvement.
• Participate in relevant safety audits, inspections and observations, and address issues as part of demonstrating safety leadership

This role is in the Mining department at a Band 7 level reporting to the Mining Engineer Load and Haul

Qualifications:

• BTech/B.Eng. / BSc (Mining) (Honours will be advantageous)
• Diploma in Mining Engineering or other N6 Qualification
• Surface mining experience (Advantageous)
• Reporting and Data analytics
• Experience with Tableau or Power BI, together with Microsoft Excel
• Knowledge of R or Python Programming language as well as SQL (Advantageous)
• Fleet Management Systems experience
• Valid Driver’s Licence
• Computer Literacy

Experience:

• 3 -5  years’ operational experience in the Mining environment